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              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will please read a communication to 
the Senate from the President pro tempore (Mr. Grassley).
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                 Washington, DC, October 17, 2019.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     John Boozman, a Senator from the State of Arkansas, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Chuck Grassley,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. BOOZMAN thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hyde-Smith). The Senator from Arkansas.

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